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November 20, 2006
Going the extra step, "beauty is more than skin deep"
One of these days I'll get a nice digital SLR but until then, I'll defer to the beautiful photos taken of our carbon-fiber rimmed motorcycle wheels taken by others. Don Smith has a great write-up on dragbike.com in part 4 of the on-going modification to a stock 2006 Suzuki GSX-R1000.
Unlike other lightweight, race-style wheels, Dymag goes the extra step to make sure their wheels will pass BS, DOT-E and JWL standards for road use. Many of the lower cost competitors in this market do not manufacturer their wheels to these standards, which often results in failures. In our years of having these mounted on many high horsepower/high torque bikes, there has not been one single failure of any type. In our case, these bikes have been drag raced, street raced and set numerous land speed records.
Don continues,
Once on the road, the new Dymags laced up with the Pirelli tires were found to be a great combination. Not only does the bike feel like it lost 20 lbs. when riding through the twisties due to the lighter rotating mass of the wheels, but it also feels like the tires are wrapped in fly paper. After a normal warm up period, the tires inspire a lot of confidence, and we never felt any transition between the softer side and the more mileage-oriented center section.
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November 13, 2006
Dymags on the Mosler
(photo credit: Uriah Baet)
While we were poking around flickr, we happened across ZKcrew's photos as they get ready to ship out a Mosler MT900 to the recent SEMA show. The MT900 comes standard with the Dymag carbon fibre wheels. Check it out, the photos are part of ZKcrew's Palm Beach Tour photo set.
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SEMA
For those of you looking for pictures from the recent SEMA show in Las Vegas, I've discovered a motherload of them on Yahoo's Flickr photosharing service.
Check out Flickr SEMA Cluster for more.
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